You could post 100 different charts, all of them profitable and someone on ET will rip you for it and find flaws in your methods. Wake Up ET. All trading methods have flaws.

My take on hammers.....I watch for them closely on the 5-min charts and I have found they are fairly unreliable in picking the exact turns of the market but the moves beyond these highs/lows tends to be the last. If you want to improve your trading with hammers look for them, wait for the market to move past that high/low, and that's your trigger when that move turns. Nothing works all the time and your method may not jive with someone else's. Just do what works and good trading!

Or.....take them as you are now and if they fail increase your size on the subsequent trigger provided it has gone far enough to trigger stops above/below that last high/low. Be sure not to tell anyone here you're doing that because they'll call you a martingale gambler and try and predict how fast you're going to blow up

Quote from ProfitTakgFool:

You could post 100 different charts, all of them profitable and someone on ET will rip you for it and find flaws in your methods. Wake Up ET. All trading methods have flaws.

My take on hammers.....I watch for them closely on the 5-min charts and I have found they are fairly unreliable in picking the exact turns of the market but the moves beyond these highs/lows tends to be the last. If you want to improve your trading with hammers look for them, wait for the market to move past that high/low, and that's your trigger when that move turns. Nothing works all the time and your method may not jive with someone else's. Just do what works and good trading!